{"id":199,"date":"2012-12-07T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-12-07T02:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:34:02","slug":"british-mp-vows-legal-action-after-being-barred-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/british-mp-vows-legal-action-after-being-barred-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"British MP vows legal action after being barred from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b-NK8bWiJoQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b-NK8bWiJoQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Globe and Mail<br \/>\nMarch 20, 2009<\/p>\n<p>British MP vows legal action after being barred from Canada<br \/>\nCAMPBELL CLARK<\/p>\n<p> OTTAWA \u2014 Controversial British MP George Galloway is vowing to take the Canadian government to court for barring him from entering the country for a speaking tour about the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Although he has visited Canada before, the Canada Border Services Agency declared him inadmissible on national-security grounds and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney decided he would not use his power to let Mr. Galloway in. \u201cWe&#8217;re not going to seek to overturn that [CBSA] assessment in order to let into the country someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan,\u201d said Mr. Kenney&#8217;s spokesman, Alykhan Velshi. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Galloway, a Scottish-born MP who was bounced from Tony Blair&#8217;s Labour Party in 2003 for vitriolic opposition to the Iraq war, led a postwar aid convoy to Gaza this month, declaring he would to hand over the supplies to the territory&#8217;s Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese are wedge issues being created by a neo-con, Bush-ite, outgoing Canadian government that&#8217;s about to be gutted in the polls,\u201d Mr. Galloway said. \u201cFlag-waving, or in the case of Canada, shroud-waving of the brave Canadian soldiers who gave their lives for this miserably failed policy of the Canadian government is despicable beyond words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Winnipeg, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said he never agrees with Mr. Galloway, but that&#8217;s not a reason for barring him from the country. 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